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Updated on Jul 17, 2024
Our cities and towns all have something unique to offer you. Whether it’s a place, a product, a landscape, an attraction or an event, you’ll always have at least five good reasons for visiting them! Here's Barnston-Ouest.
By Carolyne Parent
Far on the horizon, your eyes embrace a vast panorama including Mount Orford, and Vermont’s Jay Peak. Right in front of you, you discover a seemingly prosperous dairy farm, and some frisky horses out in the field. Further off, two pretty hamlets offer a backdrop like the ones we see in movies. This is Barnston-Ouest, a quiet municipality, located at an equal distance of both Ayer’s Cliff and Coaticook, in the MRC with the same name.
This destination, however, is far from being a newly established one… In fact, according to the municipal archives, the first immigrants to settle in what was then recently named the township of Barnston, arrived from Massachusetts and Connecticut in 1801. Soon settlers from Great Britain joined them, and later, throughout the second half of the 19th century, French-speaking settlers made their homesteads here as well. Because the area was becoming somewhat crowded, several hamlets were created. Among these, Way’s Mills and Kingscroft survived and invite us to travel back in time.
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